[Verse I]
When the sky turned black with the smoke of our dreams,
And the cities we built cracked apart at the seams,
We stood on the edge of a world grown cold—
Kings without kingdoms, with stories untold.
The echoes of empires whispered through dust,
The monuments rusted, the steel turned to crust.
We thought we were gods, but the truth came to light:
We were shadows of shadows, afraid of the night.
[Pre-Chorus]
And the wind carried warnings we refused to hear—
Every prophecy drowned in the noise of our fear.
[Chorus]
So raise the flames to the heavens—
Let the ashes fall like rain.
In the ruins of forever,
We remember our own blame.
From the heights of golden towers
To the tombs carved in our hands,
This is the song of our downfall—
The last cry of mankind’s stand.
[Verse II]
Once we painted the stars with impossible fire,
Turned oceans to pathways, climbed mountains of wire.
But the louder we shouted, the less we could see—
The chains we mistook for a new destiny.
The earth called our names with a sorrowful breath,
And we answered with silence, a pact signed by death.
We gathered our weapons, mistaking them for wings,
But no angel can rise weighted down by such things.
[Pre-Chorus]
And the ground shook beneath us, but still we remained—
Blind to the thunder, deaf to the pain.
[Chorus]
So raise the flames to the heavens—
Let the ashes fall like rain.
In the ruins of forever,
We remember our own blame.
From the heights of golden towers
To the tombs carved in our hands,
This is the song of our downfall—
The last cry of mankind’s stand.
[Bridge]
Oh, we carved our doom in stone,
Sang hymns to the throne of bone.
We lit the stars in fractured skies,
But never learned to open our eyes.
Now the silence speaks our name,
Through the fire, through the flame—
And the world writes our epitaph
In the dust of our aftermath.
[Final Chorus]
So raise the flames to the heavens—
Let the ashes fall like rain.
May the ghosts of our tomorrow
Find a world reborn again.
Let the embers tell the story
Of the price we couldn't stand—
The rise, the glory, and the ruin
Of the fall of mortal man
